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Here is a short play (this was a creative assignment for last year's teaching practice).
Three Lessons.
Act One: Lesson of the Past.
Teacher: (in Brezhnev's voice, reading from a paper)
Please, take your seats. Let's review the homework. What was the contribution of our dear Leonid Ilyich to the victory of the Soviet people over fascism?
Student: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev made a huge contribution to the victory of the Soviet people.
Teacher: The answer is incomplete. Anyone else?
Another student: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev made a decisive contribution to the victory of the Soviet people over fascism, and also to the construction of socialism after the war.
Teacher: Correct. Five, well done. New topic.
(Tries to read from the paper, but can't. The students laugh.)
Someone says that I'm reading from a paper. To that, I can answer: ha, dash, ha, dash, ha.
(falls asleep)
Students: Wake up, Leonid Ilyich!
(wakes up, rubs his eyes)
Teacher: So, the new topic. Write this down: Our dear Leonid Ilyich and his contribution to Marxism-Leninism. Name the main principles of Marxism.
(the students are silent)
And who, in your opinion, should know scientific communism? Me? I don't need it! You don't even remember "The Internationale"! You're probably reading Solzhenitsyn, you dissidents! Just wait, Andropov will come. Okay, new topic.
(tries to read the paper, falls asleep)
Act Two: Lesson of the Present.
Teacher: (in Yeltsin's voice)
Let's start the lesson. Let's review the homework. Why did I dismantle the USSR? No, why did the USSR fall apart?
Student: The USSR collapsed because it could not have not collapsed.
Teacher: The answer is incomplete, anyone else?
Another student: The USSR was behind the rest of the world and was brought to collapse by stupid communists.
Teacher: Correct. Five. New topic.
(ponders and falls asleep)
Students: Boris Nikolaevich, wake up!
(wakes up, looks around confusedly)
Teacher: You've become completely spoiled! You don't want to learn! You think you're smarter than me! And what was I talking about? Oh yes. New topic: The triumph of democracy in Russia. Name the main principles of democracy.
(the students are silent and look at each other)
You don't want to prepare! You must know such elementary things. You've become completely undisciplined. Just wait until Vladimir comes...
(nods his head)
I'm tired, I'm leaving. I'm fed up with everything.
(falls asleep mid-sentence)
Act Three: Lesson of the Future.
Teacher: Hello, colleagues. Let's review the homework. So, the question: what were the features of the USSR's foreign policy during the period of perestroika?
Student: The desire to reduce tensions between East and West.
Teacher: Correct, well done. Anyone else?
Another student: Resolution of regional conflicts.
Teacher: Correct, and more.
Third student: Establishing economic ties with all countries.
Teacher: Well done, everything is correct. Now let's try to discuss the content of this policy. Let's divide into groups. Each group's task is to provide facts for one of the areas. And also, each group should come up with questions for the others.
(they discuss in groups, everyone is interested)
This is what we want the lesson of the future to be like. Cooperation of equals, new teaching methods, a transition to humanistic pedagogy.